A coated yarn has a yarn core and a coating disposed coaxially on the yarn core. This coating contains: (i) porous particles present in an amount of at least 4 weight % and up to and including 20 weight %, each porous particle comprising a continuous polymeric phase and discrete pores dispersed within the continuous polymeric phase, having a mode particle size of 2-50 μm and up to and including 50 μm; (ii) a film-forming binder material having a T.sub.g of less than or equal to 25° C., which is present in an amount of 40-90 weight %; and (iii) an inorganic filler material having a value of less than 5 on the MOHS scale of mineral hardness, which inorganic filler material is present in an amount of 4 weight % and up to and including 30 weight %.

The present invention is to provide an anti-glare film. The anti-glare film comprises a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate and an anti-glare layer formed on a surface of the PET substrate, wherein the anti-glare coating layer comprises 75 to 90 weight parts of an acrylic-based resin, 0.01 to 10 weight parts of silica nanoparticles 5 to 20 weight parts of organic microparticles and 0.05 to 2 weight parts of leveling agent. The anti-glare film has a total haze ranging between 35% and 50%, a surface haze ranging between 10% and 15% and a gloss at a viewing angle of 60 degrees between 30% and 50% thereof. The anti-glare film can provide satisfactory anti-glare properties, high precision, surface fineness, no flicker, good visibility and also fine adhesion between layers.

A method of manufacture for an improved composition for melt-bonding road marking compound is disclosed. Comprising preparing a PET component from pulverized recycled plastic. combining the PET component, a pigment component, a filler component, a silica component and a binder component to form a road marking compound. melting the road marking compound form the melt-bonding road marking compound. selecting an amount of the PET component to maximize PET in the melt-bonding road marking compound while ensuring the melt-bonding road marking compound remains liquid for application to a road surface. The PET component comprises glass beads, is substantially clear, and substantially spherical. The PET component comprises glass beads. The method of manufacture comprises optimizing a bead diameter of the PET component to ensure the melt-bonding road marking compound can flow through screens and nozzles in a typical road paint application equipment.

The present invention provides a release hard coating, comprising a bottom hard coating component and a top release coating component, wherein the bottom hard coating component comprises a crosslinked polymer matrix and nano-silica particles; and the top release coating component comprises a release polymer capable of having a grafting reaction with the bottom hard coating component. The release hard coating can be applied onto a substrate such as PET to resist sticky illegal advertisements and protect the substrate from wear.

A method for the formation of tantalum carbides on a graphite substrate includes the steps of: (a) adding an organic tantalum compound, a chelating agent, a pre-polymer to an organic solvent to form a tantalum polymeric solution; (b) subjecting a graphite substrate with the tantalum polymeric solution to a curing process to form a polymeric tantalum film on the graphite substrate; and (c) subjecting the polymeric tantalum film on the graphite substrate in an oven to a pyrolytic reaction in the presence of a protective gas to obtain a protective tantalum carbide on the graphite substrate.

Silicone particles having excellent dispersibility are provided via the method herein. A cosmetic material having excellent feeling of use, and a highly functional paint and an electronic material are also provided. The silicone particles include a siloxane as a component. A content of a hydrogen atom bonded to a silicon atom per unit mass is 300 ppm or less, or optionally is 20 ppm or less. In addition, the silicon atom in the siloxane as a component for the silicone particles is crosslinked with another silicon atom via an alkylene group having a carbon number of 4 to 20.

To provide powder for thermal spraying, a method of thermal spraying, and a thermally sprayed coating, which can efficiently work supplying of a dry state powder by using a powder supplying apparatus with a thermal spraying apparatus, and which prevent variation and pulsation or lowering of supplied amount of powder and achieve a required film forming rate, and can obtain a denser coating on the surface of the substrate to be thermally sprayed. [Solution] Powder for thermal spraying 1 is a powder mixture obtained by mixing ceramic powder A whose particle diameter is D.sub.1 and ceramic powder B whose particle diameter is D.sub.2, wherein D.sub.1 is 0.5 to 12μπ.Math. as a median diameter, D.sub.2 is 0.003 to 0.100μ.Math.η as an average particle diameter converted from the BET specific surface area, and when, in the powder mixture, the total weight of the ceramic powder A to be used whose prescribed particle diameter D.sub.1 is W.sub.1, and the total weight of the ceramic powder B to be added to the ceramic powder A is W2, an addition ratio Y of the ceramic powder B defined by Y=W.sub.2/(W.sub.1+W.sub.2) satisfies: Y≥0.2066×D.sub.1.sup.−0.751 and Y≤0.505×D.sub.1.sup.−0.163.

The present disclosure relates to a flexible material which imitates leather, more in particular a textile material, coated with products of vegetable origin.

The present disclosure relates to a flexible material comprised of a coated textile substrate, woven, knitted or non-woven fabric, the coating material of which having in its constitution vegetable by-products and residues, which may be of different typologies. In particular, the textiles have residues attached to the textile substrate through the use of a binder.

The flexible material of the present disclosure is useful for the textile and confectionery industry and can be extensively applied in the textile industry namely in the manufacture of textile materials for clothing or for application in furniture, home textiles and decoration, footwear, automobile upholstery, bags, wallets, belts, leather goods, etc.

A multi-component, chemically-curing, non-cellular, polymeric composition includes a resin component having a resin density, a reactive component having a reactive component density, and an aggregate component having a spherical shape, a diameter of about 0.1 mm to about 10 mm and an aggregate density. The density of the aggregate component is within 2 lbs/gallon of the density of at least one of the resin component or the reactive component.

A multilayer color and/or effect coating on a substrate, wherein the coating includes a clearcoat layer having a dry film thickness of 10 μm to 50 μm, and the coating includes a basecoat layer having a dry film thickness of 6 μm to 35 μm, incorporating color and/or effect pigments whose orientation within the basecoat layer influences the optical properties of the coating, and the basecoat layer includes control particles that control the orientation of the color and/or effect pigments, wherein the control particles are characterized by a d10 of at least 50% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer and by a d50 of 80% to 120% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer, and by a d100 of not more than 200% of the dry film thickness of the basecoat layer.